Applied Statistics (Spring 2001)
Teachers: Troels C. Petersen (NBI HEP).
Lectures: Wednesday 13-14 in NBI Auditorium M.
Problem solving: Wednesday 14-16 in NBI computer rooms (Kk2).
Period: February - May 2001.
Prerequisites: Simple programming (Fortran or C++).
Text book: Statistical
Data Analysis by Glen Cowan.
Outline: Graduate statistics course giving students methods for data analysis.
Key words: PDF, Correlation, Chi-Square, Likelihood, Monte Carlo.
Course outline:
- Introduction.
- Distributions.
- Error propagation.
- Monte Carlo.
- Statistical tests.
- Summary of basics (1st mandatory problem set).
- General parameter estimation and Maximum Likelihood.
- Chi-Square fits and Confidence limits.
- Fitting data - philosophy and methods.
- Fitting excersices (2nd mandatory problem set).
- Simulation. Planning of an experiment.
- Confidence intervals by Monte Carlo - further simulation.
- The power and limit of statistics. The frontier.
- Summary and take-home exam.
Documents handed out:
Students passing the class:
- Ask Bojesen
- Lars Timmermann
- Niels Vestergaard Jensen
- Rasmus Mackeprang
- Christian Jensen
- Gunnar Gunnarsson
- Veronica Hvass
- Kristian Keller
- Anne Louise Vest
- Lars Stenseng
- Erling Johnsen
- Jesper Qvist Thomassen
- Søren Kragh
- Peter Christiansen
- Michael Risom Pedersen
- Jakob Bruun Hansen
- Peter Ahlgren